I don't like sitting around sets - I don't like the unpredictability of it.

And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.

Now my way of doing it is I always get disappointed, but there's always a level of high quality.

I like to know where I'm going to be at seven o'clock.

I don't like sitting around sets - I don't like the unpredictability of it.

The truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my bags along with them and came to New York and looked for parts in the theatre, because that's always what I preferred doing.

I don't like to cry in public, unless I'm getting paid for it.

Here's probably a short answer - I never feel in this piece that I'm stepping out and being Andrea Martin. I always feel like I'm Golde, so whatever Golde would do within those realms, that's what I would do.

For pragmatic reasons, I love the routine. I love the structure of it. I love knowing that my days are free. I know where I'm going at night. I know my life is kind of orderly. I just like that better.

I'm sick of the treadmill.

When I started out in Canada, I did a lot of voice-overs and commercials.

I love the comradery of doing theatre that you don't get in film.

Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards.

Here's the thing: I did one episode of Deep Space Nine, and I loved everybody that I worked with. People couldn't have been kinder... But I had a really, really difficult time with the prosthetics.

But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.

I could have stayed in L.A. and done sitcoms for awhile and will probably go back and do one I hope.

I was stuck in the benefits of being a known comedian.

It's really important to me to keep growing and keep finding new things.

I think probably, the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face and they kind of mold it and build it as they're going along.

Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally.

I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer.

I started out in summer stock, and that's really what I prefer.

Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.

If you're religious, it gives you a perspective.

Celebrate summer sun-drenched days and starlit nights.

I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.

One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed.

Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.

The last two years we got beat in this round. They came out with the motivation to win.

My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy.

Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain's defence for the last 60 years... I will not allow this to happen on my watch.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

When we did Dynasty, it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!

I used to be in my own world and keep to myself all the time, so there may have been a perception about my reserved demeanour that was misconstrued as arrogance. But when people interact with you, then they know the real you.

Well, they know that I'm not very anxious to get into one hour again.

You use words like 'introvert' and 'extrovert,' various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.

I mean if someone you know pushes a button you're gonna strike back out.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.

I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world.

Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice - a black male doing it all, back when some people thought he shouldn't. One reason I do all the things I do is to break stereotypes that people can only do certain things.

Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.

Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do!

States should require vaccinations for communicable diseases, like measles and the mumps. But you can't catch HPV if an infected schoolmate coughs on you or shares your juice box at lunch. Whether or not girls get vaccinated against HPV is a decision for parents and physicians, not state governments.